{"id":168,"date":"2006-08-13T10:05:03","date_gmt":"2006-08-13T15:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/13\/paving-the-way-to-war-with-iran\/"},"modified":"2006-08-13T10:05:03","modified_gmt":"2006-08-13T15:05:03","slug":"paving-the-way-to-war-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/13\/paving-the-way-to-war-with-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Paving the Way to War with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

Israel\u2019s war on Lebanon is a warm-up for the U.S. war on Iran.<\/p>\n

That is the message of Seymour Hersh\u2019s latest superb article<\/a><\/strong> in the New Yorker<\/em>. Hersh reveals that the Bush administration was \u201cclosely involved\u201d in planning Israel\u2019s attacks on Lebanon.\u00a0 A former senior intelligence official informed Hersh that, beginning this Spring, \u201cplanners from the U.S. Air Force\u2014under pressure from the White House to develop a war plan for a decisive strike against Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities\u2014began consulting with their counterparts in the Israeli Air Force.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hersh notes:
\nThe surprising strength of Hezbollah’s resistance, and its continuing ability to fire rockets into northern Israel in the face of the constant Israeli bombing, the Middle East expert told me, “is a massive setback for those in the White House who want to use force in Iran. And those who argue that the bombing will create internal dissent and revolt in Iran are also set back.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Israel is following its own agenda.\u00a0 But a Pentagon consultant informed Hersh that the Bush White House \u201chas been agitating for some time to find a reason for a pre\u00ebmptive blow against Hezbollah.\u201d\u00a0 Hezbollah\u2019s capture of two Israeli soldiers last month provided the pretext for a massive bombing campaign than had been planned long before.<\/p>\n

The Bush team is chomping at the bit to use the \u201clessons\u201d from Israel\u2019s war for its own on Iran.\u00a0 A former intelligence officer told Hersh: \u201cWe told Israel, \u2018Look, if you guys have to go, we\u2019re behind you all the way. But we think it should be sooner rather than later\u2014the longer you wait, the less time we have to evaluate and plan for Iran before Bush gets out of office.\u2019\u201d The Bush team apparently believes that they are entitled to create a few more catastrophes before Bush\u2019s time runs out.<\/p>\n

Hersh highlights the harebrained notion underlying the Israeli bombing campaign: \u201cIsrael believed that, by targeting Lebanon\u2019s infrastructure, including highways, fuel depots, and even the civilian runways at the main Beirut airport, it could persuade Lebanon\u2019s large Christian and Sunni populations to turn against Hezbollah, according to the former senior intelligence official.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

This has backfired massively.\u00a0\u00a0 And yet the Bush administration appears to still believe that a U.S. bombing campaign in Iran would turn the Iranian people against the Iranian government.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

There is no evidence that Bush or Cheney have yet recognized any drawbacks, political or otherwise, from sending Americans off to die for damnfool ideas.<\/p>\n

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